North Dakota

North Dakota SLAPP Stories:

The developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline on Monday amended a $1 billion racketeering lawsuit it filed last August against three environmental entities after a federal judge criticized the original filing as vague and threatened to throw it out of court.

A developer filed a lawsuit against the environmental groups Greenpeace International, BankTrack, Earth First! and others, alleging the groups “conspired to inflict damage on the pipeline developer and advance their own agendas.” A lawyer for Greenpeace called the lawsuit a “SLAPP” and a form of bullying.